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Saturday, May 21, 2011

movin' on up

Here's my latest finish. More lime and eggplant. I love this color combo! Most of the dots are from Pat Bravo's Oval Elements collection. They are so lovely to work with and so soft. I added a few fabrics from the stash to fill in. The white is Kona cotton.

I so rarely make baby quilts, but I should do it more often. They are so fun to finish up. The quilting is a breeze, because they are so small. But the selfish part of me doesn't like to make baby quilts because I know I will never get to use them. It's silly, I know.

I pieced the back because the fabric I had was just a touch too small. Looking at this photo, I kind of wish I would have added in some white on the back for some contrast. Oh, well.
My daughter was my quilt holder. She was complaining about her tired arms after just a few photos, so I had to settle for a crooked one. ;)

More wavy grid quilting and more lime green binding to finish it off. I'm very pleased with how this quilt ended up.

The quilt measures 35" x 47". There is a tutorial is here. If you make one, I'd love to see it!

Love how you quilted this one and I also love the color combo.off to look at the tutorial.Oh, and I love the gingham quilt in the prior post as well. I would of never thought to use a big gingham like that and use those squares as a template to quilt with.

I love it! The colors are great at a distance and really pretty up close too. And the quilting is cool - thanks for sharing your wonderful work and being an inspiration. :) (That means I'm doing wavy line quilting on my next quilt!)

It was so fun to see this one move from the WIP to FO pile. I totally agree that baby quilts are great because they provide that sense of satisfaction when I need a finish under my belt. I pieced almost four complete baby quilt tops on Thursday and felt on top of the world productive.

Love that wavy quilting! I'll have to try that, oh wait I think mine looks like that sometimes when I'm trying to quilt straight! I guess I'll just go with the flow and be wavy! hehe. Love the colors too,

Your color combo is straight out of my garden and I blogged about it yesterday...http://quiltncards.blogspot.com/2011/05/garden-color.htmlWhat a small world. I love that combo. Turned into a great quilt!

Your ideas are so inspiring to me...so very often! My Movin'on up quilt top is made out of precious (to me!) scraps and without any colour scheme (obviously!).I just love the way the top gives a frame to all my beloved fabrics...Thank you so much for this idea and have a look, if you want to...http://annilus.blogspot.com/2011/06/restequilt.html

Thanks for the inspiration! I saw your quilt on pinterest. I made a baby quilt using your picture as a guide. I didn't realize until just now after reading your tutorial that the colored squares are not quite "square". I made mine square, but like your idea!! I posted a picture on my blog and linked to your blog as well :)

I love how this quilt turned out! I was inspired to make a similar one, but I used charm squares instead and doubled the blocks. This is only my fourth quilt top--I'm still gathering the courage to try quilting them at home! Your blog is so inspiring!Here's the link to my quilt: https://amateurlibrarian.wordpress.com/2011/12/05/movin-on-up-piece-by-piece/